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Director
Werner Herzog
Defining Films
Profile
The ecstatic truth-seeker who ventures into the world's most hostile territories to film what others cannot see. His documentaries and narratives collapse the boundary between reality and fever dream — the camera becomes a tool for obsession, madness, and the sublime.
In Their Own Words
He was constructing ecstatic truth.
On Grizzly Man · Film Comment, 'The Ecstatic Truth' by Scott Foundas
Filmography (81)
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
Grizzly Man
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Into the Inferno
From One Second to the Next
On Death Row (-13) Television series documentary
On Death Row (-13) Television series documentary
Into the Abyss
Ode to the Dawn of Man
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
La Bohème
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Encounters at the End of the World
Walking to Werner (Linas Phillips, ) documentary
Walking to Werner (Linas Phillips, ) documentary
The Wild Blue Yonder
Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, ) mockumentary feature, as actor/producer
Incident at Loch Ness (Zak Penn, ) mockumentary feature, as actor/producer
The White Diamond
Meeting With Werner Herzog
Meeting With Werner Herzog
Rad der Zeit (Wheel of Time)
Rad der Zeit (Wheel of Time)
Pilgrimage
The Ball is a Scumbag (Christian Weisenborn & Rudolph Herzog, ) documentary
The Ball is a Scumbag (Christian Weisenborn & Rudolph Herzog, ) documentary
Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (Wings of Hope)
Gott and die Beladenen (The Lord and the Laden)
Gott and die Beladenen (The Lord and the Laden)
julien donkey-boy (Harmony Korine, ) feature, as actor
julien donkey-boy (Harmony Korine, ) feature, as actor
Mein liebster Feind (My Best Fiend)
Mein liebster Feind (My Best Fiend)
Flucht aus Laos (Little Dieter Needs to Fly)
Gesualdo – Tod für fünf Stimmen (Gesualdo – Death for Five Voices)
Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik (The Transformation of the World into Music)
Glocken aus der Tiefe (Bells from the Deep)
Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons of Darkness)
Das excentrische Privattheater des Maharadjah von Udaipur (The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur)
Das excentrische Privattheater des Maharadjah von Udaipur (The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur)
Schrei aus Stein (Scream of Stone)
Schrei aus Stein (Scream of Stone)
Film Lesson
Film Lesson
Echoes aus einem düsteren Reich (Echoes from a Sober Empire)
Wodaabe – Dei Hirten der Sonne (Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun)
Wodaabe – Dei Hirten der Sonne (Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun)
Giovanna d’Arco
Werner Herzog Essay (Peter Buchka, ) documentary
Werner Herzog Essay (Peter Buchka, ) documentary
Location Africa (Steff Gruber, ) documentary
Location Africa (Steff Gruber, ) documentary
Portrait Werner Herzog
Gasherbrum – Der leuchtende Berg (The Dark Glow of the Mountains)
Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (Ballad of the Little Soldier)
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, ) documentary
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, ) documentary
Glaube und Währung (God’s Angry Man)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank, ) short documentary
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank, ) short documentary
Huie’s Predigt (Huie’s Sermon)
Huie’s Predigt (Huie’s Sermon)
Was ich bin, sind meine Filme (I Am My Films) (Erwin Keusch & Christian Weisenborn, ) documentary
Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre)
La Soufrière
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Mit mir will keiner spielen (No One Will Play With Me)
Mit mir will keiner spielen (No One Will Play With Me)
Die Grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner)
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness)
Behinderte Zukunft (Handicapped Future)
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Even Dwarfs Started Small)
Fata Morgana
Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika (The Flying Doctors of East Africa)
Massnahmen Gegen Fanatiker (Precautions Against Fanatics)
Spiel im Sand (Game in the Sand)
Spiel im Sand (Game in the Sand)
Fitzcarraldo
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Aguirre the Wrath of God
Lessons of Darkness
Heart of Glass
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Land of Silence and Darkness
Stroszek
Salt and Fire
Queen of the Desert
The Killers: Unstaged
Bad Lieutenant
Rescue Dawn
Invincible
Cobra Verde
Woyzeck
Herz Aus Glas (Heart of Glass)
Herz Aus Glas (Heart of Glass)
Letzte Worte (Last Words)
Letzte Worte (Last Words)
Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life)
Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life)
Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz (The Unprecedented Defense of the Fortress Deutschkreuz)
Herakles
Ghost Elephants